Very little has changed in 56 years. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and Syria continue to fund terrorists in a proxy war against Israel. The PLO reneged on both the Dayton and Oslo Accords. After turning over Gaza and the West Bank to the Palestinians, the Palestinians engaged in suicide bombings which led Israel to build a border wall. Palestinian school text books teach children that Jews are subhuman and should be killed.

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> The settlers don’t have to move because the Arabs started a war and lost. That’s a consequence of war.

That's bullshit and absolutely not how international law governs the resolution of conflicts.

>Countries are permitted to occupy and lannex land taken in defensive wars and necessary for self defense.

Absolutely 100% positively false. Prove me wrong and cite the international law that allows this

>The permanent blockade started in 2007 after Hamas was elected.

Also absolutely false. Here's the French Foreign minister in 2005 saying Gaza was at risk of becoming an "open-air prison" https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-196496/

That's two years before the takeover by Hamas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaza_(2007) after Farah lost the 2006 elections

>The civilian victims have the aggressor to blame, not the responder

My dude. Forcibly occupying and annexing territory of another sovereign state IS AN ACT OF AGGRESSION. https://www.coalitionfortheicc.org/explore/icc-crimes/crime-aggression

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"The US government isn't publicly speculating, therefore they're guilty."

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You might enjoy this short book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children's_Story

Politics and the exploitation of tribalism.

Dems say it’s the trump deregulation. GOPers say Biden signed off on the unions being forced to take the agreement. Both are true, both are a partial picture of a longer trend. Both parties knows their base will accept the talking points without looking into it or thinking deeply.

Tribalism is how the GOP campaigned on “look at the money coming to our district from the infrastructure bill” that not a single GOP legislator voted for. It’s how the GOP raised taxes on everyone but lowered them for the rich, but still have working class support. Because these tax increases only start hitting in 2023 (just in time for the 2024 presidential campaign), next year you’ll have republicans blaming Biden for the middle class tax hike.

Democrats like myself are not immune to this tribalism either, but it is different. While Trump could do no wrong with a certain crowd (until he tried to suggest people get vaccinated), I find most of democrats call BS on Biden all the time. But, almost no democrat can answer “name one thing Trump did that was good.” One good thing is he signed the First Step Act in 2018, which enacted some long overdue criminal justice reforms into law - wasn’t controversial, wasn’t shiny, doesn’t get the full job done, but he gets to take credit for it.

Anyhow. The point is, even if it’s a bipartisan problem all the discourse ignores the facts. People trust those “in” their tribe and mistrust the outsiders. Heck, we have a congressperson who remains uncensured for calling to dissolve the union a little over a week ago - that’s unheard of since the 1800s. The tribalism is too strong to even talk about that coherently across party lines.

The Arab nations have always been selfish when it comes to the Palestinians. When jews fled or were forced out of Europe and the Middle East Israel took them in a gave the support and citizenship. The only thing the Arabs have done is use the Palestinians to fight a proxy war. Palestinians who live in Arab countries are treated like second class citizens and cannot obtain citizenship even if they are born in one.

If the Arab nations truly want to want to help the Palestinians they need to step up and help cleanup the mess they made. It should not be done by Western countries alone.

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One could even say, minor details

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Depends on the state. Assault covers both in some states.

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> If territory by conquest is illegal, then why didn't the Arabs return the land they captured in the 1948 War of Independence

Bro what land? Israel controls all the territory it held in 1948. What land do you want them to return?

>. What further security justification is there for occupying the West Bank? What justification is there for settling Israelis citizens there

You're not answering the question

A news article about a plane crash that doesn't even state the type of aircraft that crashed...

That person’s time was really up huh?

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If they do their job to the best of their ability, I see no issue. If they refuse or take some stance by obviously and admittedly fixing the participants chances because of their trans status, that’s bigotry and has no place in that position, they should be removed and the public should be informed why.

If territory by conquest is illegal, then why didn't the Arabs return the land they captured in the 1948 War of Independence? The only reason Israel's security is better than ever is because they have defeated the combined Arab armies in multiple wars.

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Yes this won't be fixed and will keep happening largely because of one political party, a party that Ohio keeps electing into State and Federal office.